NAFDA Officers

President: Kim Croteau croteaks@jmu.edu

Year: Second year
Hometown: Virginia Beach
Undergraduate university: JMU
Research (dissertation) area: Hearing Aids/Amplification
Favorite Au.D. class: Anatomy and Hearing Aids
Best thing about your classmates: They are my family :)
Favorite grad school memory/moment: Getting a grade in Neurophys!!!!!
Funniest quote from a classmate/professor: Dr. Gray illustrating the correlation between small feet and spelling abilities. Kim: "How do you spell beneficence?" Dr. Gray: "I don't know I have small feet."

Year: 2nd year
Hometown: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Undergraduate university: Penn State University
Research (dissertation) area: Hair Cell Regeneration
Favorite Au.D. class: Hearing Aids II
Best thing about your classmates: Our ability to laugh at ourselves and each other :-)
Favorite grad school memory/moment: Night of the Viking
Funniest quote from a classmate/professor: “Is that PAM or what?!”

Year: 1st
Hometown: Virginia Beach
Undergraduate university: JMU
Research (dissertation) area: eek. I don't know yet.
Favorite Au.D. class: Clinic Class with Claire Jacobson
Best thing about your classmates: Different people know a lot about different areas, so we can help each other with what we know and learn from each other about what we don't know.
Favorite grad school memory/moment: passing Instrumentation
Funniest quote from a classmate/professor: "You've had a hearing loss since birth? Was it noise-induced?"

Year: First
Hometown: Chesapeake, VA
Undergraduate university: JMU
Research (dissertation) area: N/A
Favorite Au.D. class: Anatomy and Physiology
Best thing about your classmates: They are so fun! :)
Favorite grad school memory/moment: Finishing my first semester!
Funniest quote from a classmate/professor: "Look at this final as a character builder" Instrumentation- DAN! “I'm not really good at this but we can pretend”

Year: 2nd Year/ Class of 2008
Hometown: Chambersburg, PA
Undergraduate university: Penn State
Research (dissertation) area: Special Olympics
Favorite Au.D. class: so hard to choose...probably anatomy & physiology I and hearing aids II
Best thing about your classmates: they make me laugh :)
Favorite grad school memory/moment: turning in my last neurophys lab!
Funniest quote from a classmate/professor: “My dad went to Harvard.”

Years teaching at JMU: 16
Hometown: Roanoke, VA
University where you received your Ph.D.: University of Virginia
Research area(s):auditory plasticity; influence of hair cell regeneration on neural structure and functional return of hearing
Favorite audiology class: Anatomy and physiology – of course!
Best thing about your colleagues: They are diverse – in thought, body and action; you can count on them to come through!
Favorite memory/moment since becoming an audiologist: The year 1988! In that year these remarkable things happened:

Ed Rubel and I published our discovery of hair cell regeneration in the journal Science;
the National Institute on Deafness was founded;
the American Academy of Audiology was founded; and
my son was born!

Funniest quote from a colleague/student: Not really from a colleague, but I like to paraphrase Einstein: “Smart people solve problems, geniuses prevent them.” Or, another favorite from Gary Larson: “Fools, they made me a free range chicken and I never looked back”. Or “my brain is full, may I be excused now?” Or “Scientists confirmed today that everything we know about the universe is wrongedy, wrongedy wrong.”